Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Opportunity:

A growth-stage FinTech organization headquartered in NYC is creating an improved rent payment experience by enabling users to pay rent throughout the month on a flexible schedule. The mission is to empower renters with greater control over their most significant recurring expense. The organization seeks Senior Software Engineers, Backend to help scale its products, partner integrations, and risk management platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and scale backend services and APIs supporting consumer products, partner integrations, risk systems, and core platform services.

• Build and maintain robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems with multiple external dependencies.

• Implement service APIs for web and mobile applications to simplify rent payment processing.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Sales, Partner, and Customer Success teams to deliver features and integrations.

• Translate requirements into technical specifications and lead architecture and implementation of scalable solutions.

• Own the full lifecycle of services including deployment, monitoring, and optimization for availability and performance.

• Contribute to the evolution of service-oriented architecture, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable system design.

• Develop risk management platforms including rules engines, machine learning fraud detection, and high-scale event ingestion pipelines.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote best engineering practices through code reviews and technical leadership.

• Ensure observability and reliability of services using monitoring tools and industry best practices.

• Collaborate on CI/CD improvements and automation to enhance code quality and delivery velocity.

Requirements:

• Strong computer science fundamentals with experience building scalable backend systems.

• 5 to 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on Java experience with deep knowledge of the Java ecosystem.

• Proficiency with Java frameworks and tools such as Spring (core/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning, and performance optimization.

• Experience operating distributed, service-oriented architectures at scale.

• Familiarity with REST API design, mobile API best practices, and message-driven architectures.

• Skilled in building fault-tolerant systems integrating multiple external dependencies.

• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines; experience with big data platforms like Snowflake is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB; containerization with Docker/Kubernetes; and Infrastructure as Code tools like CDK or Terraform.

• Proficiency with observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog.

• Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, scalable, and secure code using best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, including unit testing, build automation, and CI/CD.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work with distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and elevate technical standards.

• For Risk Platform roles: experience in risk engineering, rules engine architecture, and production implementation of risk, fraud, or credit policies is highly valued.

Compensation:

• Salary compensation will be commensurate with the candidate''s experience and the organization''s internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

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